He also urged Congress to establish a Veterans Jobs Corps modeled on the Civilian Conservation Corps of decades past.

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Create a CCC ( civilian conservation corps on Wikipedia) and let young people and the unemployed take these buildings apart and salvage the good parts.

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The Veterans Jobs Corps is designed to put veterans to work building infrastructure such as roads and bridges, similar to the Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930s.

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"There's a lot of people who don't recognize the amount of conservation the Marine Corps does, " said Martin Husung, a natural-resource specialist on the base.

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Authority for that decision falls to the state Department of Environmental Conservation and the Army Corps.

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The state Department of Environmental Conservation has conducted studies of the Mohawk River basin since the 2006 flood and has been working on a program involving soil and water conservation districts and the Army Corps of Engineers.

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The lawsuit, filed by a coalition of conservation groups, calls on the state of Florida, the US department of the interior and the US army corps of engineers to fulfil the requirements of laws designed to protect the manatee.

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